Kent Bush: Why doesn't health insurance cover green fees?

The liberal media is trying to kill me. Once again they pose loaded, truthless questions in order to throw a smokescreen in front of the real story.

Kent Bush

The liberal media is trying to kill me.

Once again they pose loaded, truthless questions in order to throw a smokescreen in front of the real story.

Earlier this month, a meddling media minion queried John McCain about the inherent unfairness of insurance companies covering prescriptions for Viagra for erectile disfunction, but not birth control for women.

Only Carnac knows what raced through McCain's noggin during the pregnant pause before he answered the question. The only response he offered was that he didn't have enough information to answer the question intelligently.

It turns out, the reporter didn't have enough information to ask the question intelligently.

The Web site www.factcheck.org pointed out that the reporter - and the resulting Planned Parenthood commercial based on the altercation - was quoting an old report that is no longer accurate.

More than 86 percent of insurance plans cover all contraceptives. Less than 2 percent offer no help in pregnancy preclusion.

Obviously the reporter was trying to keep the national debate off the real issue.

Why doesn't my health insurance cover green fees?

For more than 15 years I have been receiving a paycheck every other week. Each time, I pay a pricey premium to pay for my health insurance.

Not one time has that coverage picked up even a portion of the cost of a round of golf - despite new proof that it will extend my life.

American author Mark Twain called golf "a good walk spoiled."

But Irish author and poet Robert Lynd showed his deeper knowledge when he pointed out, "It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place this world is when one is playing golf."

A recently released study of 300,000 golfers by the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden revealed that they averaged up to a five-year increase in life expectancy.